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St. Paul daily globe., 1887-06-02
A WIFE MURDERER.
Hanging of George Disque at Jer-
Sey City, N. j.


JERSEY CITY, June 1.-George FL.
Disque, the wife murderer, suffered the
extreme penalty of the law in the west
erly corridor of the Hudson county jail,
Jersey City, a few minutes after 10
o'clock this morning. The condemned
man maintained his fortitude to the last.
About 8 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon,
Oct. 6, 1885, the wife Of Policeman Michael
Desmond, who occupied the lower floor of
the house in which Disque lived, heard the
latter quarreling with his wife. Then came
the sound of heavy fall, after which all was
still. About half an hour later Disque came
down stairs dressed in his best. He met Mrs.
Desmond's little girl in the hallway ''For
Gods sake, Kitty" he said, take care of
Carrie and Annie till come back" The girl
promised to look out for the two children,
who were playing in the yard Disque never
returned. 1t was $50 O'Clock that afternoon
when Disque walked into the Hoboken po-
lice station. Roundsman Peter Jacobus was
I've had fight with my wife, Pete" said
Disque. ''She took stool and a knife to me,
and Il cut her throat.
CUT 1T GOOD, TOO.
guess she's dead. Here is the KEY to my
room. You had better see about it." Officers
kalsers and Nelson were sent to Disques
home. They found Officer Desmond, who
had been awakened by his wife peering
tihOu5h biio hCy nut VI rOOm. Inc
door was opened and frightful scene was
revealed. Lying on the floor in a pool of
blood lay Mrs: Disque's body. Her throat
had been cut from ear to ear in three distinct
gashes. The dead woman's ten-months-old
baby had crawled to the side of the body and
was patting its childish hands in the moth
er's blood as it cOoed in vain for the smile
which till then had always greeted its ap-
proach. In the adjoining bed room were
found Disque's blood-stained suit and under
garments, the bloody water in which he had
washed his hands and the keen-bladed knife
with which the deed was done. Both rooms
gave evidence of the woman's desperate
struggle for life. He hands were cut to the
bone where the kuife had been drawn
through her fingers, and bloody finger marks
on her hair showed how her head had been
drawn back to slaughter her. Twelve wears
ago the father of Disque died in the arms of
his friend, Heintze, who has since become
sheriff. This morning the sheriff was COM
pelledto officiate at the execution of the old
friends SON
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-06-02
INDIAN HORSE THIEVES.

Now that the big game which used to
inhabit the Western territories has en-
tirely disappeared about the only diver
sion remaing to the Indian is the pleas
ing and exciting occupation of horse
stealing. That paStime. it seems, has
become almost an absorbing passion
with them, and in it they find profit as
well as pleasure.
Thus far their depredations. have been
committed only against each other, but
they have become SO extensive between
the Gros Ventres. on the American side
OF the line, and the Bloods, ON the Cana
dian side, that the excursions have been
marked with good deal of violence,
and several braves have been assisted
into the happy hunting grounds. The
white authorities have at last consid-
cred it their duty to interfere, and have
reasoned with the redskins in such a
manner that hostilities have for the
present ceased. We are not altogether
sure. however, that the authorities have
acted with wisdom and discretion in the
matter.
Old frontlersmen assure us that dis
position toward horse stealing is innate
with every thoroughbred Indian, and is
bound to develop itself on the slightest
proyoeation. So long then as this dis
position is eyinced only with regard to
each others equine possessions, we
think we can see possible solution of
the Indian question, a problem that has
bothered so many wise heads.
Let US look at the matter in it's syIio-
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-06-02
TO-DAY'S WEATHER.
ENTRADITION.

In a recent interview with the re-
porter of Il New York paper Sir JOHN
MACDONALD expressed the wish that
the eXtraditiOn treaty between England
and the United States would be so
amplified that Canada would no longer
be made the receptacle for our runaway
defaulterS and embeZZlerS. This is a
very natural wish to be indulged by the
premier, for that particular class of inn
migration is one not to be desired by
any country. Sir JOHN further init
mates that the United States is to blame
for not extending the treaty so as to
protect Canada against an invasion of
SwindlerS from this side of the line, but
he fails to specify the reasons why this
country objects to accommodating Can
ada in this regard. As a matter of fact
the United States could have no reason
to make an embezZler'S asylum
of Canada. Our government would pre-
fer to catch the raScalS who rob banks
and defraud their employers. Our peo-
pie would only be too glad to have them
brought back from Canada and lodged
in the penitentiaries where they properly
belong. 1t is Great Britains fault and
not ours that the treaty is not amplified.
If Sir JOHN MACDONALD had been a
little more candid he would have told the
reason why the treaty has not been eX-
tended. for he knows it full well. Know
ing our anxiety to have the extradition
treaty between the two countries so
amended as to protect Canada in this
matter as well as for our protection. the
British government seeks to take ad-
vantage of that anxiety to force us to
surrender British refugees charged with
political crimes who seek an asylum in
our country. The British government
wants to compel us to deliver up the
Irish patriots who come over here to
avoid persecution in their own country.
Our government does not intend to be
forced into measure of that kind, and
if Sir JOINS statement is true that the
United States objects to wider treaty
than now exists, it is for the simple
reason that this country will not be
.DulldOZpd
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-06-02
DIR. VESTS SALARY.
Trustees Would Pay Him $25 a
Week---COurt Notes.

The trustees of the First Presbyterian
church have served an answer to DIR.
Vests suit upon ]. j. McCafferty, DIR.
Vests attorney. 1t will be remembered
| that DR.. West sued the trustees to re-
cover 81 800, which he claimed was due
him as salary. If, Now the trustees come.
back at the doctor and claim that his
services were worth only S25 Sunday:
that they had already paid him $4,000,
and they claim that there is due them,
from the doctor S1,300. This is consid-
| cred by DR.. Vests friends rather pc
culiar theory to advance after they had
voluntarily paid the $500 for the doc
tors services.
COURT NOTES.
In the matter of the appeal of James W.
Heather from the assessment of damages for
opening, widening and extending Oakland
avenue, Judge Wilkin has decided that the
special benefits We're equal TO the damages to
the property.
Mary E. Parker has begun an action against
Moses Manuel TO quiet the title to lot 12,.
block 4, of Nininger d Donnellys addition.
None of the district judges held court yes
ierday. All of the cases set for yesterday
were either reset or settled.
Three applicants for admission to the bar
were examined by Horace r. Rigelow and e..
n. Bell yesterday.
u. ID. JldTeuIeLlS HIS Drought SulL against
NJ. NJ. Lemke to recover S347.53 due on
promissory note.
Peter Kegel has brought suit against Henry
Eggers to recover $3.50 for services rendered.
TO-DAY'S CALENDAR CALL.
The following jury cases have been set
for trial to-day:
Chicago Lumber company against S. P.
Folsom, Jr.
A. w. Barringer ct al. against Jacob Stoltz
Samuel Schwab ct al. against II. MuraWsH
ct al.
Eric Won Rosenlind against L. N Griffin.
The following court cases are set for
hearing to-day:
Nels j. Ness against Cyrus J. Thompson.
W. j. WoolSey ct al against Gebhard Bohn.
Edward Langeyin against Killian Schick-
ling ct al.
Mary E. Brooks against the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul Railroad company.
Oren B. De Wolf against Carrie L. Barber
ct al.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-06-02
BETWEEN TWO FIRES.
How a Murderous Gang Was
Broken Up.

BROWNSVILLE, Tex, May 31.-At
dawn yesterday morning, in the midst
of a driving rain, the Balsa cutoff,
above Santa Maria, Mexican territory,
on this side of the river, and the refuge
of about thirty desperate bandits,
thieves and smugglers, was raided by
force from both sides of the river. Sher-
iff Breto, of this county, and Deputy
Clansner, of Hidalgo, with about fifty
rancherOs and deputies, entered and
drove out the bandits, who met with a
warm reception on the other side from
a detachment of the Third cavalry.
under Col. Nieves Hernandez. A sharp
fight ensued, in which Col. Hernandez
was wounded in the hand, one of his
men killed and another wounded. One
bandit was killed, several wounded and
number captured, several of whom
were well-knOwn murderers, who were
executed on the spot. A large amount
of stolen stock was found, the most of
which was returned to it's owners. Breto
brought in and Jailed two men, Flor
encia AlmanZar and Dolores. On ac-
count of the dense brush number of
noted criminals made good their escape.
The blow is, however, a severe one to
the disorderly and criminal element,
which had gathered in these cut-offs, as
they believed, safe from pursuit, ripe
for any revolutionary plot and main
tanning themselves by robbery and
plunder,
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-06-02
was arrested for the crime. A scandal
is said to be at the bottom of it.
Billy Kissane,s Home.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 1.-Sinee the
facts of the whereabouts of the now
widely-notoriOus William Kissane, alias
William K. Rogers, were made known
two days ago, newspaper men have Wis
ted his ranch about three miles from
S0noro. The house of Kissane is of
stone, with broad yerandas. AT his
home are his wife and grown daughter.
To reporter to-day the wife of Kissane
said: ''Gen. Francis Darr, to whom [
ascribe the reOpening of Kissane's East
ern career, has made the exposure
owing to Kissane's failure to pay claim
for S34, 900 on account of the Chemical
Bank of New York. Since the suit has
actually been commenced the amount
has dropped to S4,30O.''
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-06-02
THE SILENCE OF Villas.

We extend to Postmaster General
Villas our hearty commendation of the
discretion he exhibits in refusing to con-
verse even with intimate friends upon
the subject of his future political plans
and prospects.
Col. Villas is an interesting talker, not
to say brilliant conversationalist, and
it goes without saying that did he
choose he could give utterance to mat
ters quite well worth reading even by
the busiest possible person. But the
colonel has learned caution by expert
ence. He knows full many well-laid
political plans ''gang aft aglee" through
undue garrulity, and it is therefore un-
likely, if he is contemplating anything
in his mind. that he would by breaking
his silence unmaSk his batteries.
1t is all very well for the coloneFs
friends to asseverate that he has said
nothing to them leading them to SUD-
pose that he was candidate for vice
president. We would not expect him to
do so. 1t is some time yet before the
nominating convention meets, and pre-
mature plans are often fruitless. But
when the time is ripe, should it seem
expedient to place a Western man on
the ticket, and should the West unite in
declaring that Col. Villas shall be that
man, we do not fancy his surprise at
the selection will be excessive. Even
though he is not saying anything at
present, and we are quite sure that he
would then break his silence in a very
eloquent way.
We do not know that this will be the
course events will take, but it is quite
possible. In politics, be it observed,
anything is possible, and Col. Villas is
a man who has made an excellent
record.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-06-02
THE UMPIRE'S LOT.
For the Globe.

For the Globe.
When the afternoon proves hotter than the
tropics,
And scorching rays come dazzling from the
When he's got to wear the regulation jacket,
The umplre's lot is not happy one.
When would-be funny men sit in the grand
stand
And fire at him their every joke and pun;
chestnut,
The umpires lot is not happy one.
When a poodle dog gets out among the
fielders,
And the players chase him round about for
fun;
When the audience is boiling DER with
laughter,
The umpire's lot is not a happy one.
When his gaze to other quarters is directed
And player cuts the third and scores
run;
When the 'ins" begin a-kicking and protest
ing,
The umpire's lot is not happy one.
When, perchance, at second he makes close
And the crowd yell "Ratsl' and Johnny
get your gunr'
When groans and Kisses follow one another
The umpire's lot is not happy one.
When he's watching eagerly behind the
striker,
And a tip from off the bat himself doth
stun;
When the small boys cry 'Thats goodr' and
"He deserves it!''
The umpire's lot is not happy one.
When rain or darkness suddenly descending.
at any time before the game is done,
Makes play doubtful business in his own
The umpire's lot is not happy one.
When the pet home team by twenty scores is
bested,
And his carcass they will vent their spleen
upon;
When they say: "That duffer ruled against
us always.''
The umpires lot is not happy one. 49,
And when at last the tedious game is over.
A wrathy crowd of hoodlums he must
shun;
When escorted from the grounds by police
man,
The umpire's lot is not happy one.
M j. Donnelly.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-06-02
STRAY SUNREAMS.

BUFFALO BILL is the biggest sensa-
ton London has had since BILLY the
Dutchman left his dykes and came over
to WELD the British sceptre. Gen.
GRANT did not receive as much atten-
ton on his visit to England as has been
showered upon Copy. Royalty vies
with itself in paying court to the Amer
lean Snowman. Dukes and earls fall
over each other in the Scuffle to pay him
distinction. q
When BUFFALO BILL rode by the side
of Lord CHARLES BEREsFoRD on top
of the latter'S coach, at the last meeting
of the Coaching club, the Prince and the
Princess of WALES, who were present,
were humiliated by the extraordinary
attention paid to the Western scout to
the neglect of their own royal high
nesses. Wherever the coach went which
carried CoDY's stalwart picturesque fig
ure there the crowd would follow. No
body seemed to recognize the Prince of
WALES as long as BUFFALO BILL was
in sight.
**m
1t is gratifying to learn that CoDY's
head has not been the least bit turned
by the fiattering attention paid to him.
He maintains stoical indifference to it
all, and his nerves are just as steady
under the fire of admiring glances as
they were when he drew bead on
YELLOW HAND. He retains his democ-
racy intact and absolutely refuses to
issue free passes to the Wild Western
show.
Company d will come marching home
to-day with a glad and gallant tread.
Their victory has been bloodless one,
but none the less creditable for that.
''Peace hath her victories no less re-
nowned than war;" and if the st. Paul
boys did not win their laurels on a
blood-stained field. they are the more
fortunate for it. The military strength
of our nation lies in a weil-OrganiZed
militia, and it is something for Mime
sofa to boast of that the flower of our
American militia organization is st.
Paul's own crack company. .-
*x*
The friends OF Company SD" are in
dignant at the insinuation made by the
Washington correspondent of the
Pioneer Press that in awarding the
prizes the judges were influenced by
sectional considerations. The Judges
were all regular United States army
officers. Most, if not all of them, had
been in the Union service during the
war. They were selected as judges be-
cause they were known to be honorable
men and capable of deciding military
questions. They awarded the first prize
to the Lomax rifles because that CON-
pany had the best score, and the second
prize was awarded to the st. Paul COM
pany because it had the next best score.
To question the right of the Mobile
company to the first prize would be to
question the right of Company I'D" to
the second.
~
The soldiers in our next war had their
fun in Washington last week. The sur
viving soldiers of the last war had theirs
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-06-02
Murdered Boys Buried.

READING, Pa, June 1.-The remains
of fSamuel Spesa and Willie Kaler, the
two boys who were so brutally murdered
bga their grandfather, William Showers,
WHO is now in Lebanon Jail, were buried
to-day in the village cemetery at Ann
VILE. ~ Thousands of persons attended
the burial and public excitement is un-
abated. There is now no doubt in the
mihdsOf the neighb0rs but that Showers
motive in killing the boys was his desire
to- 6nlaIry Miss Sargent, who had prom
issfB marry him If the boys were placed
INF Ahome or ''bound out" Showers
Wif8died suddenly year ago, and his
daughter, the mother of the boys, sew
efaI later, and there is now suspicion
that this same desire of Showers to
niaify Miss Sargent led him to take the
lives Of his wife and daughter. In search
ing the house to-day oranges were found
which are said to contain poison, and a
thorough investigation will be made in
the endeavOr to ascertain whether or
not Showers is responsible for the death
of the women.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-06-02
SOUTH DAKOTA's TRADE.

The Omaha Republican objects to the
assertion made by the GLOBE that the
trade OF 1ankton and Southeastern Da-
kota belongs by right to st. Paul, and
after fnquiring by what right, declares
that it should come to Omaha for the
same reason that water runs down hill,
and has only gone to st. Paul because
"Omaha has not reached out for it, So
1t appears that in this case little fore
Ing is necessary to make the commercial
water run down hill.
The right by which st. Paul has ac-
quired possession of the trade of Yank-
ton and vicinity is the best in the world,
the right OF conquest. 1t is true that
Omaha is geographically nearer, pos
seSSeS the advantage of water COM
munication, and that rail connection
Is shorter, in the matter of miles. but.
nevertheless, the merchants of that vi
clnity have always found it to their ad-
vantage to maintain business relations
with st. Paul. st. Paul merchants
were early in the South Dakota field,
While Omaha was yet struggling vii
lage, and later when, though of greater
growth, she was still needless of her op-
portunities, st. Paul had developed and
drawn to herself the trade of the entire
region. With as direct, though not as
near. rail communication, she can still
supply the wants Of South Dakota. and
1t is not likely that she will quietly
stand aside and allow Omaha to reap the
advantage OF her many years of labor.
st. Paul business men have not been
easy to vanquish in the past, and the
Omaha merchants will discover that if
will be rather difficult matter to over
come them now, however vigorous the
'reaching-Out'' process may be.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-06-02
PROMPT VENGEANCE.
Eynchers Hunt Down Young
Girls ViOIatOrs.


LOUISVILLE, KY, June 1.-Sheriff
Lewis; of Gibson county, Ind, arrived
in theicity last night and brought the
news of very sensational affair hap
pening in Crawford county Sunday. A
foprteen-year-old daughter of. John
Flanagan, near Boston, that county,
was carried away and cruelty and foully
assaulted and outraged. At 10 O'Clock
Sunday morning Walter and Charles
Davis brothers, of bad repute, visited
the Flanagan. residence, which is sit
uated eight miles from this place, in
Perry county, and finding the family
away from home save the daughter and
her two brothers, they told the Flanna-
gan boys that some stray stock was
= breaking into the farm mile aWay
from the house. The boys started over
to see about the supposed stray and OBJ
streperous stock. After they had started
the Davis boys carried the young daugh-
ter OF Flanagan to a neighbOring wood,
where the crime was enacted. A hand
kerchief was placed over her mouth and
the girl was tied to tree while
HER PERSON WAS VIOLATED.
After this she was beaten with a stick
Of wood and left for dead. When the
two brothers returned home a search
was made for the missing sister. An
all-night hunt failed to discover her,
but on Monday morning some of the
neighbOrS found the girl almost dead,
tied to tree in the woods. She stated
that after the assault upon her the two
men pointed pistols at her and threat
ened to shoot her if she made any out
cry during the night. The two Davis
boys who made the assault were found
in the woods near the suffering girl on
Monday morning. One account states
that both of them were taken to a sap
ling near by and lynched after they had
confessed the deed. Another states
that Walter Davis escaped, but that just
after dark his brother, Charles, was
concealed under house and was
dragged out by the infuriated mob. He
was terrified and quaking with
fear. He was securely strapped to
horse and driven to the spot where he
had raviShed the girl. He begged for
mercy, but his cries were unheeded.
He was taken from his horse, his hands
tied behind him and he was given two
minutes in which to pray. He availed
himself of the time allowed, and at the
expiration OF it stout sapling was bent
down, short rope tied to the top, with
the other end about Davis neck. Six
men held down the tree, and when it
was released it flew back into position
and Davis was jerked twenty feet into
the air. The force threw him over the
top of the tree, and as the rope brought
him up short on the other side his neck
was broken. The body was riddled
with bullets by the crowd and was al
lowed to hang there until yesterday
morning. 1t was then cut down by hi
father and given burial.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-06-02
THE WHEAT GAMBLERS.

TlThe wheat grower and wheat gamb-
Ner are natural enemies, or rather the
formeri the enemy of the latter while
khe gambler regards the former as simply
a counter in his gambling operations.
sTMe grower depends upon the law of
supply and demand to regulate. the
price Of his commodities and rightfully
expects due return for his product
shat will recompense him for his time
and labor.
! The gambler does everything in his
T0wer 70 disturb the regular action of
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-06-02

A Judge Missing.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, June PRO
bate Judge Lyman Follett has been
missing for several days. Inquiry shows
large shortage in his accounts. Nearly
every estate in probate court are suffer-
ing where funds passed through Follett's
hands. 1t appears that Follett specu-
lated heavily in wheat in Chicago, los
ing large amounts. He was prominent
churchman, and has a wife and three
children.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-06-02

gistic form. The Indian cannot help
horse stealing; they confine their preda-
tory instincts to each others posses
sion; in the process of attempting to ac-
quire unpaid for horse flesh in this man.
her several noble red men always get
their quietus; in the course of time
therefore all would be assisted into an
other and doubtless better land. No
Indians would be left to disturb the
white man and monopolize the best
acres and they would have disappeared
of their own accord. Could any solu-
tion of the Indian problem be simpler
or clearer.
Looking at the matter in this light, is
it not possible that the white authorities
have made mistake in exercising their
restraining influence?
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-06-02

THE total expense incurred by the
city of Boston in entertaining Queen
KAPIoLANI now reaches $4,000. The
generosity of Boston's city council may
be expected to continue so long as the
people are willing to pay the taxes.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-06-02
A Mississippi Negro Swung Into Eter-
nifty at Jackson, Miss, After
Joining sha Church.
HANGING Of a Brutal Wife-Murderer at
:, Jersey City---He Confesses His
/ Awful Crime.
One Of the Ravishers of an Indian
Girl Caught and Strung Up
By a Mob.
A Probate Judge and Considerable Cash
se Mysteriously Missing From Grand
Rapids, Mich.

JACKSON, Miss, June 1.-William
Steele, colored, was hanged in the Jail
here at 1880 this afternoon for the mur-
der Of Nelson Potter. He was baptized
last Sunday, and marched to the gallows
accompanied by four colored preachers.
He exhibited no fear of death, and made
speech of twenty minutes on the trap
protesting his innocence.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-06-02

PITTsBURG is making an effort to Sc
cure visit from CLEVELAND. But why
should he want to 60 to the Smoky City
when with but little more time he can
learn something of the Northwest's
glories by visiting St. Paul and Mime
aDOliS?